The streets of an unimportant town were oddly silent in the night, until a great flash of light appeared and faded away into the surrounding darkness. The street lights were dim as if they were giving off light from a candle instead of a light bulb. A figure was pacing toward a nearby street light, but it wasn't because of the area of light that she wanted to be there. Just underneath the street light was a small object that was levitating 5 feet above the ground.

"Yes! Our fifth soul!"

A teenage girl with long (and somewhat messy) blonde hair in a white trench coat and glasses was walking toward what seemed like a glowing red will-o-wisp. But anyone who had a brain knew what the will-o-wisp actually was. It was the soul of a pre-kishin. This one was literally emitting an evil aura around it, making the illusion that it was the source of its own heat. The teenage lab girl held out a strange weapon she was carrying about 3 meters in front of the soul.

The weapon was like the outcome of what happened when you crossed a pickaxe with a scythe. The pole part of it was green and wrapped in brown leather that was in a cross patching pattern. Two blades were at the head of the weapon, one on each side. The blades were a metallic silver and light green, along with having one large patch of brown leather in the middle of each blade. There was what looked like a painted green eye at the place where the two blades met at the pole. The weapon started to glow a light green before it slipped through the girls hand like it wasn't even there, rapidly changing shape before meeting the ground in front of the teenage girl.

What was recently the weapon materialized into a human shape before even touching the ground, taking on the shape of a girl's body. When the glow faded away, the weapon was now a red headed teenage girl in a loose green jumpsuit, strapped together by a brown leather belt and various patches of larger pieces of leather on her arms, shoulders, and legs. Her hair was tied back in a high pony tail, leaving two large identical bangs hanging in her face. She stared at the red soul in front of her for a few seconds before grabbing it.

"That one was a fighter huh Tei?" The girl in the lab coat said.

"Yeah, it was. But at least we finally killed it." Tei replied, staring at the soul in her hand, as if expecting it to jump out and bite her head off.

A long awkward silence filled the area around them, making the girl in the lab coat slowly lose her patience.

"…Well? Aren't you going to eat it or something?" she asked.

"…..I'll eat it later. Let's just get out of here." Tei answered, starting to walk past her partner. Until her partner grabbed her shoulder and forced her to face her partner and childhood friend.

The girl in the white trench coat was now completely in the light of the street light, revealing two large electric plugs popping out the side of her head. She could see electricity starting to spark on the metal parts of her plugs as she gave her a glare.

"You've been using that excuse ever since we got our first soul. Have you even eaten ANY of the souls we got yet? All you do is just grab the soul, get home, and put it in one of those wooden boxes you've been making! You act like all a soul is good for is collecting dust! What's wrong with eating them?" Her partner explained.

"Sockette, I'm just not hungry. Can we go home now?

Sockette's plugs start to make sparks fly.

"You haven't eaten anything since breakfast this morning, which was cereal and some wood chips! At least eat SOMETHING."

Tei sighed in defeat. "Alright, fine. I promise I'll eat something when we get home."

"You promise?"

"I promise. Now please, can we go now?"

Sockette smiled, which grew from cheek to cheek. She then followed her partner out of the town.

The truth was, Tei was practically starving. Like her partner said, she didn't eat a single thing since breakfast. She would have eaten the soul right then and there, but her mind refused to do such a thing. Not after what happened last time.

-TIME SKIP- 9:30 PM AT SOCKETTE AND TEI'S APARTMENT-

Tei kept her word and fixed herself a bowl of macaroni and cheese while Sockette went to her room to finish her "done at the last minute" homework. As soon as Sockette was out of sight, Tei practically wolfed the macaroni and cheese down her throat in less than a minute, not bothering to savor the flavor. She kept staring into the empty bowl, wanting it to fill itself up again. Realizing her stupidity, she sighed and started to walk over to the sink.

'If your still hungry, why not eat one of those souls that you have in your room?' a voice echoed in the depths of her mind. Tei stopped right in her tracks.

Great, that voice again. Why can't it just leave her be when something is bothering her?

'I don't want to eat those at the moment. I'd rather eat something real.' She replied back to the voice in her mind.

'But don't you see? They are real. What's wrong with eating them?'

Tei grunted in disagreement. She didn't know who or what this thing was, but it was starting to piss her off. It was bad enough that her own partner said that, she didn't need this thing to repeat it.

However, she did take a private mental note that this… "Thing"… sounded very similar to Sockette when she spoke the same words.

'I don't want to talk about it, especially with you.' Tei quietly snapped.

'Aw…that's mean. I thought we were friends. Don't friends tell each other about things that bother them?' the thing said in a sarcastic voice.

That did it. Tei felt her usually calm soul snap, but she didn't care. This thing pushed a baaaad button.

"I'M NOT YOUR FRIEND! I DON'T KNOW YOU! I CAN'T EVEN SEE YOU! SO SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" Tei shouted as she dropped (but more like slammed) the empty bowl into the sink.

Sockette came running out of her room and to Tei's side in shortly after.

"Tei! What's wrong?" Sockette asked with a worried look on her face.

'Crap…did I just yell out loud?'

'Yes, you did…'

'Shut the hell up and go away.'

Tei sighed. "I'm fine Sockette. I'm just talking to myself." She said in a monotone voice.

"But you were shouting. Who were you shouting at!"

"…. Just forget it. I'm going to bed."

Tei already slammed and locked her door shut before her confused partner could say anything else.